SK live fire drills designed to hack off Norther

So let’s see who is the bigger man. I know that South Korea has been talking about these live fire drills for a while now and I know it’s part of the normal military routine to have such drills and exercises. We do it as well. But in the same place as the tests before when the North responded with deadly accuracy…. I don’t know if the need to show that you don’t back down is worth the potential risk of escalation.

North Korea called Monday’s drills a “reckless military provocation” but said after they ended that it was holding its fire because Seoul had changed its firing zones.

The official Korean Central News Agency carried a military statement that suggested that the North viewed Monday’s drills differently from the ones that provoked it last month because South Korean shells landed farther south of the North’s shores.

I have an idea. Why doesn’t the US and SK stage an exercise for providing, oh, I don’t know, food, to an improvised nation which might happen to be, oh, I don’t know, North Korea. Get some good international work done, feed a few million people and maybe we don’t get closer to war.

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I know but it was worth a shot… I just find it amazing that South Korea is investing so much time and effort to hack off their northern neighbor. It’s politics, foreign policy and military readiness all wrapped up into a nice package. I get it and even believe it is likely necessary to hold such drills.

Ain’t that a kick in the butt. One of those quirks of the cold war. Again, you can dream for the right thing. Doesn’t mean it’ll ever happen but you could hope. And NK could use a Happy Meal or two from the US. Their economic situation isn’t that stellar.